“The accuracy of current and projected capacity utilisation provided valuable information for production to feedback to the Sales team. For example, production can now identify a specific window when it knows it can comfortably beat the industry average for a certain product, and for how long. On time delivery performance is up from 80% to 95% while machine utilisation has been increased from 75 to 92%. "

Preactor International, the world’s leading specialist planning and scheduling Software Company, today announced the launch of its new entry-level solution, Preactor Express. Aimed specifically at providing smaller companies access to the next generation of industry leading solutions’ flexibility and functionality, Preactor Express is based on the recently released Preactor 11 and will be completely free of charge.

Mike Novels, CEO of Preactor International comments on the significance of the decision. “As a family of solutions used by over 3000 companies worldwide, Preactor has become widely synonymous with production planning and scheduling excellence at every level. When many mid to top tier manufacturers think scheduling, they think Preactor and our new entry-level solution, Preactor Express, offers our proven technology to smaller companies historically reliant on spreadsheets or out-dated planning applications.”

He continues, “We took the strategic and innovative decision to make Preactor Express available free of charge to enable manufacturers to gain agility, visibility and competitive advantage – especially as they deal with the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging from the recent recession. And, because of the excellent scalability of the Preactor family of solutions, there is an assured upgrade path available. Now every company, irrespective of size or budget, can discover for themselves, the widely acknowledged benefits that Preactor can deliver.”